The Batter’s Box

Fall 2012 – Issue 5

• About The Batter’s Box

• Announcements

• Schedules.Scores.Standings

• Team Write-Ups

• Charities & Sponsor Bar

• Wiffle Ball for Dummies

• DOs & DONTs

• The Weekly Catch

• Pictures

• The END

James Salgado, Charm Reyes, & Jon Reyes

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Contests

Every team will be offered a space every edition of the Newsletter to submit something funny... write about their game... whatever...and since we’re doing a newsletter every Tuesday of every week, you have plenty of time to come up with something! If your team doesn’t submit anything, and isn’t in the newsletter, talk to your captain!

Ideas for Team Submissions When I say, submit something for your team, here are some ideas: • Play by plays of the game • Document the debauchery at the bar - i.e. describing someone’s amazing acting skills hobbling across the bar with a “sprained ankle” just to Ice a teammate. ] • Draw pictures!!!!! • Favorite quotes, poems, song lyrics, movie scripts, YouTube video, or motivational speeches! • Email chains from the morning after . • Funny pictures of you, your team, or something random on the internet • Give your team member awards - drunkest, loudest, person with the least shame, best off the face catch, etc.! • Anything. Really. Someone on your team is creative.

Submissions are due EVERY Tuesday by 7 p.m.

Backyard Sports Club’s email is:

backyardsportsclub@gmail.com. I look forward to working with all of you!

** If you need extra time, email me and just let me know.

DISCLAIMER: if you have problems with keeping your language in check, not bashing refs, being overly nasty to other teams, and other no-no’s, the Editor does have the right to not include your write up in the newsletter if the content is deemed inappropriate or out of line. We will try to screen write ups as they are received, will try to let teams know so that they have time to resubmit, but there is no guarantee. The easiest thing to do is to keep it clean, be nice, and remember this is all in good fun.

Backyard Olympics

Wheeler Dodgeball, Backyard Sports Club, and American Cornhole Association are proud to present the Inaugural Backyard Olympics. Teams are encouraged to sign up for all three events and go for the GOLD Competition. There will be social events Friday & Saturday to get to know the competition. Medals will be awarded to teams that compete in all 3 events. But Teams can choose to enter only 1 event. Registration will be up in Mid-September. When: Feb 2nd 2013 – Feb 3rd 2013 Where: Virginia Beach Convention Center Time: 11 AM – 8 PM Why: Cause it sounds FUN! For more info search “Backyard Olympics” on Facebook!

Announcements

REMINDER: There is NO smoking at the fields! And please be

discreet if you are drinking alcoholic beverages. Coolers and Solo cups are your friends!!! We do not want to lose these fields, so PLEASE respect the rules! Thanks

Hair Graphics

Owner and Master Stylist, Joy Godfrey has been creating avant-garde looks for over 10 years. Educated by some of the leading companies in the salon industry; Vidall Sasson, Bumble & Bumble, Wella and Paul Mitchel, to name a few. She has a acquired a multitude of skills to give clients the exact look they want. Her work is inspired by the love of art and design specializing in texture cuts and creative color techniques. Joy believes that your hair is a very important part of your life, as well as your self-image and personality and looks forward to working with you.

Pembroke Chiropractic

Marcie Masterman from Friends Wiff Benefits work at Pembroke Chiropractic for Dr. Mark Soccio. Allow your body to “Fall Into Good Health” this season without the use of harmful drugs or surgery. Our holistic approach goes beyond the medical approach. Our first goal is to help you get out of pain as quickly as possible by assisting your body’s inborn ability to heal. Discover Chiropractic!

Don’t forget to like us on Facebook!

Happy Healing!

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Please send any requests for “Announcements” to backyardsportsclub@gmail.com

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Please submit all scores and write ups about your teams to backyardsportsclub@gmail.com

Week 5 schedule – Thurs, Nov 1st

standings

Sons of Pitches 6 6 0 0 Rec ‘N Ballz 6 4 2 0 Holey Balls in Your MOUTH 6 4 2 0 Make it Rain 6 4 2 0 Down Wiff It 5 3 2 0 Wiffskey Militia 6 3 3 0 Wiffle While You Twerk 6 3 3 0 Clown Babies 5 1 4 0 Ball Bangers 6 1 5 0 Friends Wiff Benefits 6 0 6 0

Team Name GP W L T

Week 5 scoreboard Teams Score Clown Babies vs. Wiffle While You Twerk 5-27 Friends Wiff Benefits vs. Rec ‘N Ballz 7-11 Holey Balls in your MOUTH vs. Wiffskey Militia 11-6 Down Wiff It vs. Sons of Pitches 9-21 Make it Rain vs. Wiffle While You Twerk 11-2 Friends Wiff Benefits vs. Ball Bangers 5-13

6:30 Games • Ball Bangers vs. Wiffskey Militia Field 1 • Down Wiff It vs. Holey Balls in your MOUTH Field 2 • Rec ‘N Ballz vs. Wiffle While You Twerk Field 3

7:30 Games • Make it Rain vs. Rec ‘N Ballz Field 1 • Clown Babies vs. Sons of Pitches Field 2 • Down Wiff It vs. Wiffskey Militia Field 3

Team write-ups

This was a tough loss. We've played several games against the Sons of Pitches and it's usually a fun & competitive time. Well, tonight the luck of the wiffle was with them. We came to play and we're looking forward to be the team to finish their unbeaten run. Our defense made a couple amazing plays in the first inning to hold them to zero runs but it was all downhill from there! Although our hitting was pretty solid, we couldn't make good runs and kept our scoring low. The Pitches, on the other hand, had a pretty solid night hitting the ball everywhere, including their pitcher, who must've gotten hit 5 times. The final score was 21-9 but don't worry, it won't be that easy come play-offs time!

- Antonio Pazos

Our team is finally coming together. The newbies are starting to catch and hit the little white wiffle ball. Our defense remains strong and we were able to keep the Twerkers under the Rain. MIR finally exploded with some RBI's, and even had a Grand Slam to put away the Twerkers. The game went by really fast it felt like it was 3 up and 3 down again. I just hope our offense stays in a rhythm for the remainder of the season. Good Luck to the Twerkers and hopefully we see you guys again. If not we will see you at the bar. Flip Cup Challenge?

- Jon Reyes

Team write-ups This weeks match up had us pinned against Holey Balls In Your Mouth. Everything was going fine until the first play of the game. Once again the ump has became the topic of our write up. It has become apparent that the umps are A. Legally Blind, B. Volunteers, C. In Training, or D. All Of The Above. I will give you a hint, there are no wrong answers here. The umping has been so consistently bad, that we expect bad calls and we don't even say anything when they occur. Some of our players are even feeling bad for the umps. I would gladly volunteer to teach the umps the rules or replace them altogether. I would like to say that not all the umps are terrible, because there is one good one. However, I would like to ask that we never have the other two umps for our games again. That way I won't have to spend my entire write-up on this topic! Thanks!!!

- Marcus Blagen

We are officially not the worst team on the league. Thanks to Friends Wiff Benefits we managed to restore our confidence. Even an automatic out couldn't stop us. We scored ten points in the 3rd and 4th innings. Maybe we don't need that many people on our team after all… Just kidding. Everybody did great. Really happy about our first win this season… Hopefully not the last one.

- Nadia Kraft

BALL BANGERS

Team write-ups

Another windy and blistery night on the wiffleball fields. When Jon told us we'd be playing on the mini fields, I was nervous because I'm well aware of DWI's multiple home run hitters. And they didn't disappoint. I think Mike and Doug both took one out but thankfully they didn't hurt us too bad. Our offense was clicking and we got several 2 out hits and were able to string rallies together. We hit only one home run on the night but were able to play strong defense in the outfield and squash any big runs they had with timely outs. Glad we were able to notch another win and are looking forward to finishing out the season with two more fun games.

- Will Buker

Promoting Ball Awareness...Since 2008

I was looking forward to our first game all week since it was against a bunch of Clowns. I was talking shit all week leading up to the game so I had to back it up. That we did. We won 25ish to 5ish. Our defense was clicking so kudos to everyone. Im sure our success had a lot to do with the fact that it was a 6:30 game and everyone was still sober. We looked like we were wearing some gold gloves out there. Shoutout to Clown Babies as well. They hit the only HR of the game and even tho they were down early, they were still out there with a positive attitude and having fun. I was mildly disappointed tho because they were nowhere to be found on the dance floor nor did they close the bar down.

Our second game was against Make It Rain. We lost. That's it! Goodbye.

- Joe Equitan

Team write-ups

Clown Babies: #9 in the standings, but #1 in our hearts. Wouldn’t it be nice if when you took your game notes on the back of a business card bc the Russian on your team brought you a pen and no paper, that you remembered what your notes meant? Yeah…that’d be pretty cool. I DO remember getting twerked by a score of a lot to a little. HOWEVER, if you divide by 3, carry the 7, subtract the number of times Joe was impressed Brannon (3rd person) caught something, and don’t count the 2nd inning – the score vs Wiffle While You Twerk was only 13-4…which sounds MUCH better than what the score actually was. Next game we’ll try stapling the Wiffle Ball for Dummies “No Sliding!” picture to Mickey’s chest and reminding Caitlin that playing catcher requires, preferably, putting your cup down. (Clown) Baby steps though. Lastly, in conjunction with The Jon Reyes Center For Kids Who Don’t Play Wiffleball Good And Wanna Learn To Do Other Stuff Good Too, we would like to thank our CB post-game fun sponsor, The Shotski. © 2012 Grand Marnier. All rights reserved. ® and TM designate U.S. trademarks of Grand Marnier. I can’t make any “that’s what she said” jokes about 4 ppl being on their knees together due to legal restrictions, but you get the idea. As always, great talk. See you out there.

- Brannon Smith

Vs. Clown Babies. I didn't know what to expect. They were a new team but they had some kickball knowledge. They had beaten Ball Bangers in the previous week 20-2. All this mystery was solved when we came up to bat. We were consistently hitting base hit after base hit. The game was probably our most productive game ever. We had the defense to back it as well. Chris Snyder had a couple of grabs in the outfield and Andrew Hass stopped someone from scoring. All in all, it was a great game.

- James Salgado

Charities & Sponsor Bar

Drink Specials •

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Food Specials

Wiffle Ball

Well, since no one wants to read the official Backyard Sports Club Wiffle Ball rules, here is a simple Wiffle Ball for Dummies to help you out as the season starts out!

NO SLIDING! NO CLEATS! Unless the ground is wet!

NO GLASS BOTTLES! NO SMOKING!

Wiffle Ball

MOST IMPORTANTLY….DO NOT, DO NOT THROW YOUR TRASH

BAGS WITH EMPTY CANS OR BOXES OF “ADULT BEVERAGES” INTO THE TRASH RECEPTICALS THEY HAVE AT THE FIELDS.

These DO NOT Go Into the Trash Cans at the Fields:

The Field Manager has already warned us about this, and if he has to tell us one more time, he

will take away our drinking privileges at the fields…or worse, he can end up kicking us off these fields all together! So PLEASE take your trash bag full of cans, cups,

and boxes with you!!!

The Dos and DONTs • DO NOT bring alcoholic beverages to the field….or at least be discreet about it! • DO clean up after yourselves! Unfortunately, maid service was cut out of Backyard

Sports Club’s budget due to the economy. • DO be friendly to the Refs: Please do not yell at them…just remember, you’re the one

that will look like a jerk if you yell at them. • DO NOT be “that guy.” We do not own Uno Chicago Grill or the premises around it; so

when you do something stupid, you’re not excluded from any laws just because you are wearing a Backyard Sports Club t-shirt.

• DO NOT leave a fellow wiffleballer behind; we take care of our own. Don’t let your

teammate drink like a champ and drive home. Find the closest decent looking guy/gal, introduce them, and have them go home together.

• DO NOT be bitter. It’s super important that if you end up having a “sleep over” with a

fellow wiffleballer, be cool with them for weeks to follow. We’re a small community, you’re gonna end up seeing them all season! When they drop you off at your car, hug it out, smile…and say “hi” the following week.

• DO NOT try to guess that persons name! • DO go to our sponsor Bar, Uno Chicago Grill. It’s what the cool kids are doing. • DO NOT fight! This is a fun league, HAVE FUN! If you fight, fun’s over for you, you’ll be

kicked out. • DO always wear your Backyard Sports Club shirt. I know laundry once a week may be

too much, so it’s cool if you go a couple weeks without washing….unless you’ve got bad B.O. like Robbie Wright!

• DO NOT smoke at the fields!

**DISCLAIMER** Nothing in the Backyard Sports Club Newsletter is to be taken seriously, except for the schedules and scores! Please send scores, recaps, pictures, questions, funny quotes, and/or any information that you would like to be added into the week’s newsletter to backyardsportsclub@gmail.com

T h e w e e k l y c a t c h

My next write up is about a lady who is feisty, ferocious, strong-willed but sometimes can be a tease. Her name is Sandy. This one is a party animal. She has blown more people on the Jersey Shore than Snooki. But you boys are gonna have to compete with Bill Clinton because the former president wants a piece too, pretty intimidating to compete with a former president. But don’t let Sandy fool you, she can be a HUGE bitch. Her temper tantrums only last for about 4-5 days. Just like any other woman. So if you’re interested, let me know, I’ll hook you up! PS. All joking aside, let's be thankful that we got through this whole ordeal pretty safe as a whole in VA and keep everyone affected by this, especially friends and family in the northeast, in our hearts and minds.

Sandy -

Brought to you by Joe Equitan

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